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513. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike east of Chester Heights
Exact location uncertain.
514. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Chester Heights
Valleybrook Road is just past the Esso gas station.
515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.
516. Roadside. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from west of Chester Heights
Exact location uncertain.
517. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Concordville
Concordville Hotel is on the right.
518. Detached, sample. West of Concordville on Baltimore Pike at intersection of Conchester Highway.
Three sample houses with prices under $4,000, and no money down. Exact location unknown.
520. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Concordville
Exact location uncertain.
521. Roadside stand. On Baltimore Pike east of 202.
Green Meadows Dairy Bar, offering "quality buttermilk, homemade ice cream," and "thick milk shakes". According to newspaper advertisements, this same building later housed Green Meadow Plants. It was just north (or east, as the caption reads) of Route 202 on Baltimore Pike.
522. Highway. Looking south on 202 just north of Baltimore Pike
Exact location uncertain.
523. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from Brandywine Bridge, Chadd's Ford.
This lumber-yard, a former mill, later became home of the Brandywine River Museum.
525. Open. East of 202, on Dilworthtown Rd., looking east, Thornbury Township
Exact location uncertain.
526. Detached, new. Dilworthtown and Brinton Lake roads, Thornbury Township
527. Shopping. Thornton
Sign reads: "Quaker Friendly Food Stores"
528. Detached, new. Near Thornton
Exact location uncertain.
532. Highland Homes. Wayne
These buildings, which were low-income housing, no longer stand.
533. Highway. Providence Rd. north of Sandy Bank School, Upper Providence Township.
Shows children crossing the road to get to the Sandy Bank School.
536. Open. On Providence Rd., south of Edgmont
Shows open land in Edgmont Township. Exact location uncertain.
538. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.
539. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.
540. Detached, new. Broomall, W. Ann Rd.
Exact location uncertain
541. Detached, new. Broomall, Sylvan Drive
Exact location uncertain
545. Shopping. On West Chester Pike, Broomall.
Broomall Barber Shop and Tony's Shoe Store. Datestone in building reads: Isaac Lawrence, 1817. According to the 1909 Mueller Atlas, Plate 30, this building stood on the northeast corner of the intersection of West Chester Pike and Sproul Road. See P-13006 for earlier photograph. Address is approximate.
548. Main Street, Darby
Looking from above Powell Road (on right) toward 9th St.
550. Highway. MacDade Boulevard, from Chester Pike, Darby.
The building that earlier housed the car dealership on the right still stands (as of 2020).
551. Industry. Darby.
According to newspaper research, Saha Manufacturing Co. was located on Springfield Road near MacDade Boulevard., or MacDade and Chestnut Street. Exact location is uncertain..